Originally Posted by tsastor

Planning to visit the Taj Mahal from Delhi, preferably as a day trip. GUWonder suggested in another thread to take a guided tour.

Are there tours that utilize the fast trains from Delhi to Agra? Can you pre-book a tour that meets you at the Agra train station and drops you back so that you can still get to your hotel at Delhi for the night? Or are the return trains so bad (e.g. 10 hours late, see below), that it is better to hop on a tour bus from Delhi?

Can you book tours over the net? (I am a little afraid that booking a tour using a concierge at a 4-5 star hotel may be prohibitively expensive).

Finally, is there so much to see in Agra that it is better to stay there overnight?

A lot of questions, even though I have read these threads